[PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description

Zhang Yanfei zhangyanfei.yes at gmail.com
Sat May 25 20:58:23 EDT 2013


于 2013年05月26日 07:20, Eric W. Biederman 写道:
> Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Won't we want to keep this reservation around to so that this number
> doesn't get reused, and cause people confusion when
> upgrading/downgrading kernels?

Ah, yes. I will just keep this and add a note to make people know that
it is removed in the next version.

Thanks
Zhang

> 
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devices.txt |    2 --
>>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
>> index 08f01e7..4f85739 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
>> @@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
>>  		 10 = /dev/aio		Asynchronous I/O notification interface
>>  		 11 = /dev/kmsg		Writes to this come out as printk's, reads
>>  					export the buffered printk records.
>> -		 12 = /dev/oldmem	Used by crashdump kernels to access
>> -					the memory of the kernel that crashed.
>>  
>>    1 block	RAM disk
>>  		  0 = /dev/ram0		First RAM disk




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